Christina D. Romer is the former first chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, a New York Times columnist and professor at UC Berkeley. She is an expert on macroeconomic volatility and the causes of the Great Depression. The recipient of numerous awards, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Romer received her Ph.D. from MIT and is the Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley.